Feb 3 2021 Event with Ken Liu/The Signed Page
Quick alert! On Feb 3 at 4 pm PT/7 ET/ & all times etc The Signed Page will host a Facebook Live chat with me & the magnificent & brilliant Ken Liu (The...
SERVANT MAGE PUBLICATION DAY!
18 January 2022
Two Events and a Black Wolves Reminder
My official virtual book launch event for SERVANT MAGE takes place the evening before the release date, sponsored by Brookline Booksmith. I hope you can join...
2022 Arrives, along with a neglected old friend
I have always liked New Year’s resolutions as organizing principles--what worked, what didn’t work, what I want to work on--and as aspirational goals. As I...
The Tinder Box
and publication news or not-news
Already November
and a title!
Almost October 2021
Are you thinking about holiday gifts, pre-orders, and supply chain?
SERVANT MAGE Giveaway!
What's that you say? GIVE away?
Furious Heaven trundles closer: July 2021
I have turned in a draft of Furious Heaven. September, October, and November will be wall to wall revisions. Meanwhile I’m working hard on a second novella...
SERVANT MAGE: cover reveal
While some will have seen this elsewhere, I am delighted to share with you all the spectacular cover for my forthcoming tordotcom publishing novella SERVANT...
April Happened, and Now It Seems To Be May 2021
smol news edition
Changing platforms & also yes I can write short stories, so there
I use this newsletter to directly communicate with readers who have signed up to get semi regular news about my work that may be of interest to them. I...
UNCONQUERABLE SUN eBook sale USA/Canada region through 3/28
For those who haven’t seen this news, I wanted to alert you that the Tor Books ebook version of Unconquerable Sun is on sale for $2.99 through March 28, 2021...
It's Not About The Machines
February 2021
Process, Not Outcome
January 2021
At year's end: a Spiritwalker Universe short story
When I Grow Up + other spiritwalker tales
A Year Out Of Time: 2020
2020 feels as if it were a year out of time. Hours felt like days and weeks like months. Yet here we finally are on the cusp of 2021. I’m not going to...
The Future Rarely Concedes To Our Demands
Luggage, Expectations, and also audio short fiction
NaNoSlowMo
The slow churn onwards
The Last Quarter & Letting Go of Outcomes
Also Announcing a Monthly Worldbuilding Webinar
A Quick Heads-Up! Signed UK 1st Edition
AND THE UK COVER!
A Quick Alert & Correction
PLUS UK NEWS
Unconquerable Sun In The Wild
Discussion Venues + Additions & Changes to Online Events
Online Events Coming Up
in support of UNCONQUERABLE SUN
a brief addendum to the giveaway post
Sorry, despite proofreading it has been brought to my attention that I did not proofread well enough and my email lacks a suffix. Everything else in the...
Finally a SUN giveaway
author copies received
Narratives Are Maps
June 2020 is not apolitical
The Idea of an Idea
Thoughts on Writing/I Make Up Worlds #1
The Boundaries of Fiction
April 2020
February 2020 Brings News
I’m sad I did not send this on 02/02/2020 because obviously why wouldn’t you want to? But I didn’t. Which is a lesson of itself: Don’t beat yourself up for...
It's Amazing the Things We Know That Are Actually Wrong
(originally published in June 2012 on A Dribble of Ink)
The Book of Dragons ARC giveaway
for newsletter subscribers only!
Is Fantasy Writing Gendered?
This post first published in 2016 in the Book Smugglers Quarterly Almanac
The Omniscient Breasts
The Male Gaze Through Female Eyes (original publication 2012)
Walking into the Wilderness
2010s end but the future is always beginning.
New Decade, New Directions
An Introductory Note